(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order appoints various days for the coming into force of provisions of the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 (“the Act”).
Article 2(1) provides that the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of the Schedule shall come into force on 1st April 2003, subject to any restriction of purpose in column 3 of the Schedule.
Article 2(2) provides that section 60(1)(g) of the Act shall come into force on 1st May 2003.
The Act received Royal Assent on 11 February 2003. Sections 42(1), 42(2), 50 and 62 came into force on Royal Assent.
The provisions of the Act remaining to be commenced after the making of this Order are sections 8(2)(c)(ii), 9, 11, 35(2) to (4), 36, 40, 47 and 60(1)(b). Section 8(2)(a)(v) and (2)(d)(i) remains to be commenced for all purposes.